L.A. school district agrees to settle elementary school abuse claims

March 12, 2013|Reuters

LOS ANGELES, March 12 (Reuters) - The Los Angeles UnifiedSchool District has agreed to a multi-million-dollar settlementwith 58 current or former students at a school where anex-teacher was accused of taking bondage-style photos of pupils,a lawyer for the district said on Tuesday.

The settlment would resolve nearly half of the 129 claimsfiled by former students of Miramonte Elementary School,district attorney David Holmquist said.

Dozens of claims filed by parents or guardians were not partof the settlEment agreement, he said. Holmquist declined todisclose the amount of the potential settlement, which stillmust be approved by a judge, but said that it ran into themillions of dollars in total.